external hard drive?
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- daveFelton
i'm in the market for an external hard drive. i really need something that has
A) decent space. ideally 150 gigs+
B) something I can hook to my powerbook and capture video to / edit video from.I currently have a maxtor 200 gig drive, but it is a USB drive, so it doesn't have the speed to keep up with my powerbook for editing and capturing. i was wondering if anyone knew of a drive, possibly firewire, that would get the job done for me.
thanks homies.
- garett_west0
I have this one. It's blazing fast. I love it.
http://www.lacie.com/products/pr…
Also I have this one (which is a bit older) and it's fantastic too.
http://www.lacie.com/products/pr…
I love their look and have had *knock on wood* no problems with them. They're really fast.
- de4k0
ditto what garett said
I have the second of his two lacies, good products, and nice blue lights!:D
- Gilt0010
Sometimes you can find a more "cost-effective" solution by buying a desired size hard drive that might be on sale at your local computer store and then buying a quality external hard drive enclosure for it.
Check http://www.newegg.com for some solutions.
I just found out my 80GB external firewire drive has some 'issues'. It houses my mp3's. Needless to say, I'm a bit worried...
- v3nt0
i say lacie too - got a 160 here and it fasto
- daveFelton0
excellent. i figured lacie would be a safe route. thanks for the input!
- BrigadeDesigns0
Western Digital makes a decent HD-- and they're one of the few companies that still actually manufactures hard drives themselves-- Lacie's decent too, but for price point, I'd still say Western Digital.
- acescence0
i would get a good drive (seagate, western digital, etc.) and put it in an enclosure.
i have a closet full of failed lacie drives, i will never buy from them again.
- Neuarmy0
i was just looking at getting another external, but instead I bought another internal drive for my G5 - 500GB.
whoa. room to breath now...
and only $199
- ribit0
we've had good experience with about 6 Lacie disks, especially when they replaced a 250GB Ethernet Disk that had network problems with a 500GB.
- HafDed0
anyone have any exp with iomega deshtop hard drives?
- ninjasavant0
I run FCP on a PowerBook and use a 300GB Seagate firewire drive, its been good to me so far. Seagate uses liquid bearings in some of their drives and they are super quiet.
I will never waste my money on another Maxtor hard drive so long as I live though.